Just a quick note, since I’ve been lax in Xinjiang blogging, everybody should be reading The New Dominion. They’ve got it all covered, from the newest announcement of suicide bombing food poisoning kidnapping terrorists, to the alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir connection, to telling Nicholas Kristof he’s a hack. And Uyghur lessons (podcast, fellas, podcast!!!). Now I would just make a request: hey guys, how about digging into the Uyghur forums and translating some of the stuff there? I heard there’s some wacky story getting posted all over the place about a Korean missionary who sleeps with guys in order to get them to take bibles and convert. No, really.
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Hey, davesgonechina,
Thanks very much for the link and recommendation! We originally really, really wanted to do a podcast. It turns out, however, that it’s hard to find a Uyghur who wants to have their voice recorded and spread all over the Internet. Who knew?
heh… uh, are you guys too shy? Cmon, its better than nothing. Tell you what, do it on Skype and I’ll do a guest spot as the “Sarang Ixek”.
I have no idea how to spell that properly.
Heh… We can do a podcast based entirely on unfortunate Uyghur stereotypes. “Hey,” says the Sarang Ishek, “I smell neshe! And is that the sound of a happy dutar? Selim Boway, is that you?!”
It’s more that we want to sure it’s correct. I have little faith in my Uyghur. My vocabulary is wide and my grammatical knowledge broad, but my phraseology runs a crooked route.
Dave, some observers have noticed an increase in funding from the NED to UAA in crecent years:
http://www.uyghurnews.com/ReadNews.asp?UyghurNews=uaauhrp-funding-update&ItemID=YB-21720086165115330986604
I’d cite soruces newer than 2006, but the Johny-come-lately stuff is just too well timed, either “too CNN” or “too Xinhua”.